the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Ester 2:2
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Maka sembah segala orang muda baginda yang berkhidmat kepadanya: Baiklah dicahari akan tuanku beberapa orang perempuan muda, yaitu anak dara, yang elok parasnya.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
king's servants: Esther 1:10, Esther 1:14, Esther 6:14
Let there be: Genesis 12:14, 1 Kings 1:2
Reciprocal: Genesis 12:15 - princes 1 Kings 1:3 - So 1 Kings 12:14 - the counsel
Cross-References
And God sawe euery thyng that he had made: and beholde, it was exceedyng good. And the euenyng & the mornyng were the sixth day.
And the Lord God planted a garden eastwarde in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had shapen.
The name of ye first is Pison, the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Hauilah, where there is golde:
Sixe daies thou shalt do thy worke, and in the seuenth day thou shalt rest: that thyne oxe and thyne asse may rest, and the sonne of thy mayde and the straunger may be refreshed.
For it is a signe betweene me and the children of Israel for euer: for in six dayes the Lorde made heauen and earth, and in the seuenth day he rested and was refreshed.
But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lorde thy God: thou shalt not do any worke, thou nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man seruaunt, nor thy mayde, nor thine oxe, nor thine asse, nor any of thy cattell, nor the straunger that is within thy gates: that thy man seruaunt, and thy mayde, may rest as well as thou.
Yea if thou turne thy feete from the sabbath, so that thou do not the thing whiche pleaseth thy selfe in my holy day, and thou call the pleasaunt, holy, and glorious sabbath of the Lorde, and that thou geue hym the honour, so that thou do not after thyne owne imagination, neither seeke thyne owne wyll, nor speake thyne owne wordes:
And Iesus aunswered them: My father worketh hitherto, and I worke.
For he spake in a certayne place of the seuenth daye on this wyse: And God dyd rest the seuenth daye from all his workes.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him,.... Fearing that, if Vashti should be restored, vengeance would be taken on them; or however to remove the grief and melancholy of the king, they gave the following advice:
let there be fair young virgins sought for the king; that he might enjoy them, and choose one of them, the most agreeable to him, and put her in the room of Vashti.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Esther 2:2. Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king — This was the usual way in which the harem or seraglio was furnished: the finest women in the land, whether of high or low birth, were sought out, and brought to the harem. They all became the king's concubines: but one was raised, as chief wife or sultana, to the throne; and her issue was specially entitled to inherit.